Digital Library | Historical Society of Pennsylvania : Item : Vocabularies of Indian Languages Klik'itat [Klickitat] and Kalapoo'yah [Kalapuya], 1836 [13808]

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Vocabularies of Indian Languages Klik'itat [Klickitat] and Kalapoo'yah [Kalapuya], 1836

Permanent ID:

13808

Call number:

Am .5095

Date:

January 1837

Image Description:

A manuscript vocabulary book authored by R.J. Dunghion. Little information is available on Dunghion, but his motivations for creating this little book were possibly evangelical. Both the Klickitat and Kalapuya are Native-American tribes located in the Pacific Northwest of the present-day United States.

The Klickitat resided in the region that is now Washington State, north of the Columbia River, at the headwaters of the Cowlitz, Lewis, White Salmon, and Klickitat rivers, in present-day Klickitat and Skamania Counties. Today, they are enrolled in the federally recognized Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation.

The Kalapuya resided south of the Klickitat in the Willamette Valley of modern-day western Orgeon. Today, the Kalapuya are members of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon.

This digital record contains twelve images that depict the entire described item. HSP possess another vocabulary by R.J. Dunghion of the Santeau [sic], which is not currently digitized.

Format:

Manuscripts

Library of Congress Subjects:

Tribes of Native America [info:lc/authorities/names/n2002100208]
Klickitat River (Wash.) [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh90004645]